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OFFICIAL r>ESCHIFTIVH AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.
“A. Kiss, of Berlin (271), p. 10(15). An Amazon onhorseback attacked by a Tiger . With a ferocious boundthe animal has leaped upon her horse, and fastened onhim with teeth and claws. The Amazon is about totransfix her assailant with her spear. This work, whichis on a colossal scale, has been cast in zinc by Geiss, fromthe original model, and bronzed by electro deposit. Inthis group the artist has, by an original and powerfuleffort of invention, placed before our eyes the most criticalmoment of the action. The whole expression and cha-racter of the Amazon are very nobly conceived; theanatomy displays consummate knowledge; great style isshown in the general treatment of the surface, and thedetails are wrought out with wonderful force and truth.The whole work is full of soul; it seems the full, earnestutterance of a true artistic nature.
“The great qualities of this work called forth at thetime of its completion the most unbounded admiration onthe part both of artists and friends of art. It was exe-cuted in bronze by a public subscription, and now orna-ments one side of the staircase of the lioyal Museum atBerlin .”
“ Since the year 1815, great efforts have been made inPrussia, by the successive monarchs and administrationsof Prussia, to encourage the fine arts in that country.Museums, and other buildings of a similar character,have been erected; sculptors, and more recently painters,have been employed in the execution of monumentalworks, and the cultivation of all those manufactures, onwhich art can exercise any influence, has been greatlypromoted by the foundation of the institution for trades(Gewerbe lnstitut), under the energetic and judiciousmanagement of Privy-councillor Bcuth. That theseefforts have led to the happiest results has been provedby the Inhibition, which has furnished to Prussian long-desired opportunity of showing what progress has beenmade.”—Juries’ Reports, p. 697.
811 Sciiui.z., L. W., Meiniwjcn —Inventor andManufacturer.
Large carved ivory tankard.—P. 1095.—Plate 297.
[Ivory has been employed from a very early periodas a material upon which to exercise artistic skill andtaste. The recent excavations at Nineveh disclosed num-berless objects formed of that substance, delicately andelaborately carved. The benches of the galleys of thefamed city of Tyre were inlaid therewith by “the com-pany of the Aslmrites;” allusions to ivory in the sacredvolume prove the acquaintance of the ancients with it asa substance adapted for the purposes of ornamenta-tion. The most extraordinary work executed in ivoryappears to have been the Jupiter of the great Phidias ,who flourished some 4to years before the Christianera. The statue was 00 feet in height, and was platedor veneered all over with pieces of ivory, which werecarefully lilted together and thereafter carved to therequired form. Quatremere de Quincy , who writes uponthe subject, maintains that the ancients were acquaintedwith means which enabled them to procure plates of agreat size. By a process recently introduced of cutting thetooth round by means of a saw, a ribbon or sheet of ivoryis produced or unfolded, corresponding to the entire depthof the tusk and thickness of the sheet, and only limitedthereby ; these are principally used by miniature painters.Some time ago a sheet 17 inches by .‘18 was shown, and aFrench manufacturer has produced them so large as .‘10by 150 inches. The chief supply of ivory is received fromthe Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, India , and the countriesto the eastward of the Straits of Malacca . Immensequantities of fossil ivory is found in Siberia , in the re-mains of an extinct class of animals, the tusks and bonesof which have been preserved by the ice and soil in whichthey were imbedded. In the curious manipulation of
ivory the Chinese take the lead; but very exquisite S P C ^cimens of ivory carving may be seen in Dieppe , onestu 1of the town being entirely filled with shops which exp 0sat their windows for sale brooches, crucifixes, statuett“'paper knives, &e., covered with the most delicate v ’ 01manship, and thoroughly artistic in character. Ivory ■readily turned in a lathe, with tools of an ordinary km 1 "It is carved with chisels and gouges, smoothed with 1and floats of suitable cut ; and after being renderedA”*the surface of a finer texture by friction with vet'V glass or emery paper, the final polish is producedfriction with a rag on which whiting and water are sp> ‘ jor, where the surface is irregular, by a brush dipp 01the same material.—W. C. A.]
MECKLENBURGH.
11 Domnin:. ,
A balance to carry one kilogramme in each pan.oscillation of the pans is checked by hair brushes. Jpans are suspended from plates of steel, having plane sfaces, which rest upon the extreme knife edges.
BELGIUM.
Beaulieu, Belgium. ,
A repeating theodolite, furnished with a circle <’ ,
inches diameter, and read by 4 verniers to 10 seconds,is adapted to take either horizontal or vertical angles,sextants, of different radii; an octant in ebony.
FRANCE.
369 Pehreaux, M., 14 Rue Monsieur le Prince, •Peris-'Manufacturer. ^ ir ,
A straight-line divider, on liamsden’s principle ( jnished with a long fine steel screw, and a sor< a , ", l l #tdivided into 400 parts, a helix screw, and a stop h xta definite point.
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1511 Fastrk, J. T., 3 Rue de I’dicole Polytcchnip ie >
—Manufacturer. . . j 0 , lS
An assortment of delicate thermometers, thein all cases being on their own glass stems; b'rhygrometer, and Frnst’s barometer.
[This arrangement of the divisions being place 1 ! 0I |tubes of the thermometer, admits of a more correct'ting of the temperature, and is not liable to the inacc ^which would result from the expansion or contrite
the material out of which scales areW. C. A.]
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1231 Fourdinois, Alexander Georoes, 46 R' lS
Amelvt, Paris —Manufacturer. . tl ,<l
A walnut sideboard in the Renaissance upon six hounds, of which two are m profile ; hi 1,1 _ , ie l9is a large trophy of dead animals, on each side atxM p 0 „rwith fruit introduced, the pilasters are adorned tvi 0 nfigures, representing the four quarters of the voithe right is a hunter and on the left a fisherman, ‘ 0 natydes. The figure on the top represents Ahum ‘ ^ng.each side are groups of children reaping and g j^p. toSome parts of the wood are tinted, to give im ,iethe carving.—P. 1236.—Plate 333. ..lets
[The Renaissance style is one peculiarly suitco I( ,nd»familiar with the ornament of all ages, and I-cC ”V,], nu')'itself by the exuberance of the ornamentation 1